CLASS OF 1859

Dr. Phineas Sanborn Conner died of heart disease at his home in Cincinnati, Ohio, March 27. Doctor Conner was the son of Dr. Phineas Sanborn and Eliza A. (Sanborn) Conner, and was born in West Chester, Pa., August 23, 1839. His father, a graduate of Dartmouth in 1835 and a practicing physician, died in early manhood in Cincinnati, where he had removed in 1844. After graduation Doctor Conner at once began preparation for his father's profession, and graduated from Jefferson Medical College in 1861. In November, 1861, he was appointed acting assistant surgeon in the United States Army, and was assigned to duty at Columbian Hospital, Washington, remaining there until June, 1562. April 16, 1862, he was commissioned assistant surgeon, and March 13, 1865, brevetted captain and major, resigning with that rank Aug. 1, 1866. He had a varied service in charge of Carver Hospital, Washington, at the Antietam battlefield, in charge of the University and St. James Hospitals, New Orleans, as medical inspector of the Thirteenth Army Corps, as post surgeon at Governor's Island, New York Harbor, and as medical director of the Department of North Carolina. On resigning from the army he opened practice in Cincinnati, and remained there without change. He soon became distinguished as a surgeon, being possessed of rare diagnostic acumen, unusual skill, great courage, scientific method, and a progressive spirit. He was equally eminent as a teacher. In 1866-7 he was professor of surgery in the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery; professor of chemistry in the Medical College of Ohio in 1867-9, of surgical anatomy in 1869 72, of anatomy in 1872-87, of surgery from 1887 to 1905, of clinical surgery in 1905-7, professor emeritus from 1907, and dean of the faculty in 1900-05. In Dartmouth Medical School he filled the chair of surgery from 1878 to 1902, and professor emeritus from the latter date. At the centennial exercises of the Medical School, in 1897, Doctor Conner delivered the historical address, which was published by the College. A thorough master of his subject, possessed of a virile, incisive style, he had the happy faculty of impressing his meaning indelibly upon the minds of his pupils. Doctor Conner was a member of the Academy of Medicine of Cincinnati from 1866 till his death, and its president in 1877. He was a member of the Literary Club from 1867, and its president in 1871. For over thirty-five years he was on the staff of the Good Samaritan Hospital, and of the Cincinnati Hospital from 1574 to 1895. He was a member of the Ohio State Medical Association, the American Medical Association, the American Surgical Association, and the American Academy of Medicine, and had been president of each. He was also a member of the Loyal Legion, of the Society of Colonial Wars, and of the Sons of the Revolution. In 1884 Dartmouth conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws. He was married December 17, 1873, to Julia Elizabeth Johnston of Cincinnati, whose death, some ten or twelve years since, was a great and lasting grief. Of their three children, two survive their parents.

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